Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/May 29 to June 4, 2022

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (May 29 to June 4, 2022) edit

Prepared with commentary by YttriumShrew, ‎ TheJoebro64, and igordebraga

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India lost two singers this week, and they top the list; below them is a list dominated by Stranger Things and Top Gun: Maverick.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Sidhu Moose Wala	3,083,071	In an unfortunate proof that violence in rap isn't limited to the U.S., this controversial Punjabi rapper was shot in his car by an unidentified group. Some significant controversy arose as his security had been cut shortly before he was killed.
2	KK (singer)	2,986,232	Moose Wala wasn't the only Indian singer to die this week; KK, a playback singer in multiple languages from a completely different genre of music, died of a heart attack shortly after a concert.
3	Stranger Things (season 4)	2,665,381	Most of the fourth season of Stranger Things was released last week, with the final episodes being held back to the start of July. The season is a bit darker than previous ones, and features strange (and stranger) things happening in Hawkins and a second, less fantasy-y storyline set in Kamchatka.
4	Amber Heard	2,176,373	The lawsuit (#19) revealing a seemingly mutually abusive marriage is over: on June 1, Heard was found liable on three counts of defaming her ex-husband Depp. (Though it wasn't a total victory for Depp; the jury found that one of his lawyer's statements regarding Heard was also defamatory.) If Depp's career was sent down after the last time this went to court, expect hers to suffer too—there are rumors of her Mera, a highlight of Aquaman, being cut from the sequel.
5	Johnny Depp	2,091,010
6	Top Gun: Maverick	2,066,402	After repeatedly being delayed, the #12-led Maverick was finally released on May 27, 36 years after its predecessor (#8). The film received rave reviews—with many considering it one of the best films of Tom Cruise's career and superior to the original Top Gun—and has already grossed over $548 million worldwide.
7	Stranger Things	1,837,177	The Duffer Brothers revival of both Stephen King and Steven Spielberg from the 80s has returned to Netflix (#3).
8	Top Gun	1,226,408	The biggest hit of 1986 concerned naval aviators going to the TOPGUN academy. Only two of its characters returned for the belated sequel at #6, Cruise's Maverick and Val Kilmer's Iceman - who has only one heartbreaking scene, especially as the character reflects Kilmer's health history being a cancer survivor who now can't even speak properly.
9	Val Kilmer	1,212,420
10	Elizabeth II	1,208,775	The United Kingdom and a bunch of other places celebrated their Queen's Platinum Jubilee this week, with pageantry, salutes, shows and a ridiculous skit with Paddington Bear.
11	Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV series)	1,200,712	Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi was one of the unquestionably good things in the Star Wars prequels, and so he gets a limited series on Disney+, that now even made him meet Darth Vader nearly a decade before their fatal re-encounter.
12	Tom Cruise	1,146,780	One of the last bonafide movie stars, known for not using stuntmen and having stopped aging some time around the 2000s, returned to one of his greatest hits (#8) in #6. And next year he returns to his landmark franchise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
13	Millie Bobby Brown	955,780	After lending a hand to Godzilla and King Kong and having Sherlock Holmes as a brother, this British actress is back as Eleven in #3.
14	Vikram (2022 film)	911,984	This week's Indian film is this well-reviewed Tamil film about a black-ops squad fighting a drug syndicate.
15	Deaths in 2022	872,409	How could I ever forget It's the first time, the last time we ever met
16	2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine	797,950	It keeps on falling, but it remains awful. At least Ukraine got some brief relief in the football pitch... and then Gareth Bale's Wales were in the way.
17	Kelly McGillis	765,710	The love interest of #8, also known for playing an Amish in Witness, an attorney in The Accused and not much else, was not brought back for #6. She says it didn't bother her.
18	Kiyoshi Kuromiya	691,069	Born in a Japanese internment camp, Kiyoshi Kuromiya rose to prominence as part of the civil rights and anti-war movements, and later became a noted gay rights activist. He got a Google Doodle 22 years after his death as part of Pride Month.
19	Depp v. Heard	645,072	You hit me once, I hit you back I gave a kick, you gave a slap You smashed a plate over my head Then I do something to our bed
20	Ray Liotta	613,259	The American actor best known for Field of Dreams and Goodfellas is still being mourned.
21	Jamie Campbell Bower	586,992	A new addition to the cast of Stranger Things (#7), in which he plays the main villain of season 4 (#3).
22	Robb Elementary School shooting	568,396	Americans are still reeling from the devastating mass shooting that left 22 dead (including the perpetrator) and 18 injured, and criticism of Uvalde law enforcement's response to the shooting continues to mount as more details come to light. (Depressingly, people seem to already be moving on, given that it's fallen 20 places from last week.)
23	Miles Teller	566,652	#6 has as Rooster, the son of Goose, #12's doomed wingman in #8, the star of Whiplash and War Dogs (and a movie people would rather forget) who had been only in two streaming shows for five years. And adequately, his last movie was directed by the same Joseph Kosinski of Maverick.
24	Winona Ryder	536,320	Two of #3's most prominent women, the suffering mother Joyce Byers, played by the best known cast member upon debut (Beetlejuice, Heathers, two Oscar noms, etc.), and her daughter-in-law Nancy Wheeler, who is trying to make a name for herself in movies like Velvet Buzzsaw and Yes, God, Yes.
25	Natalia Dyer	532,108

Exclusions edit

This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the talk page if you wish.